The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 112
Every one quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.
Who acts: one, letter, words · What happens: quote, be, not understand · To what, where: letter, many words
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, letter, words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quoted | nsubj |
| 3 | quoted | quote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 quoted | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 full | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 full | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 full | cop |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quoted | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 full | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 understand | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 understand | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 understand | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 understand | advmod |
| 17 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 words | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other | past | every one | letter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | letter | of many words; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not understand | could | words = word | many words | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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